Python: This seemed like a clever way to allow my extension to requests to accept a URI containing named parameters. If the URI still contained the parameters by the time it received them, it would use the method's keyword arguments to replace them. However, being careful to pass along `**kwargs` turned out to be a problem. If the keyword argume…

requests_extension.py

    def get(self, apiQueryURI, params=None, **kwargs):
        """
        Append the specified query URI to the base URL, which is then sent to the REST API.
        Results are returned as a requests.Response object.

        :param apiQueryURI: URI for the query, to be appended to the base URL
        :type apiQueryURI: str
        :return: requests.Response
        :rtype: requests.Response
        """
        print self.methodName() + '():', apiQueryURI

        apiQueryURIFormatted = apiQueryURI
        if (util.stringContainsAllCharacters(apiQueryURI, '{}')):
            try:
                apiQueryURIFormatted = apiQueryURI.format(**kwargs)
            except Exception as formattingException:
                message = \
                    'Error while formatting query, "%s", "%s: %s"' % \
                    (apiQueryURI, formattingException.__class__.__name__, formattingException.message)
                raise requests.RequestException(message)

        return self._sendRequest(self.methodName(), apiQueryURIFormatted, params=params, **kwargs)